Mirror Your Community Installation

Dorin Ștefan Adam is an architect and the founder of the office MÂNADELUCRU, which primarily operates in the fields of architecture and design. With a small team, the office relies heavily on a certain communication and closeness among its members; this leads to a personalized, highly punctual, and detailed approach to each project they handle, with increased attention to the direct requirements of the client and a solution that is as honest and accurate as possible. He is an associate professor and doctor of architecture at UAUIM Bucharest, coordinating the design studio for second and third-year students. Through his academic guidance, he seeks to capture the necessity and role of architecture in a changing world and to instill in students the ability to respond personally to project themes. As a curator of a series of art and architecture exhibitions, he has initiated a series of installations at the intersection of architecture and art, which capture the state of overlooked or forgotten built heritage. Recently, he co-founded the VICEVERSA association, a platform focusing on the dialogue between architecture and visual arts with the current issues of politics and society.

The installation "Mirror Your Community," part of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, speaks about people, public space, and a festival that, through culture, brings people into public spaces. The mirror is not just about accepting what you see in it; it's about taking pleasure in the person who looks back at you while also taking the time to see beyond the surface of attractive appearances. The mirror is about understanding that our value lies in unity, and that each individual contributes to the common good. It is about realizing the common good, the inherited heritage, in a city where multiple cultures and generations have coexisted, and understanding that time is not just about the present but that the present gains value through its legacy. Heritage means constructed traces as well as individual memory. The Sibiu International Theatre Festival celebrates architecture by bringing performances to public spaces, turning building facades into grand stages or backgrounds for people to gather. Buildings are no longer just on a heritage list; they are a living heritage through the people of the city. The installation is not so much a so-called mirror but more like a long, thin, and tall wall, 18 meters in length, with a unique feature, and that is to show. All building walls show something. A building's facade is a wall showing one face of the building, but the facade has no meaning without the building's interior and exterior. In other words, a facade is not merely an interface between two environments. This long wall is a highly reflective surface. This clear mirror surface is a photograph of everything happening both outside and inside a place. It reflects the city space - the space of coming together, and, most importantly, in a festival, it reflects people who seek culture coming together. The building's interior is not visible; merely standing in front of the wall, the mirror does not allow a view into the ground floor of the blue house. The image will be of a ground floor of the blue house isolated from the public image. The mirror transforms public space. It shows how people are in that public space but also allows the public space to enter the building. The mirror brings public space from the viewer's perspective, making you part of the ground floor of the blue house, along with all the others who are nearby and reflected on the wall.